![]() To think or act outside the box "contrary to convention" is attested by 1994. The box set "multiple-album, CD or cassette issue of the work of an artist" is attested by 1955. World War II, perhaps originally Australian, on the notion of box of tricks. The slang meaning "vulva" is attested 17c., according to "Dictionary of American Slang " modern use seems to date from c. The graphics sense of "space enclosed within borders and rules" is from 1929. The meaning "station of a player in baseball" is from 1881. The meaning "television" is from 1950 (earlier "gramophone player," 1924). The meaning "pigeon-hole at a post office" is from 1832. 1600 ( box seat in the theatrical sense is by 1850). The meaning "compartment at a theater" is from c. Dutch bus, German Büchse "box barrel of a gun," also are Latin loan-words. ![]() Beekes suggests a loan-word from Italy, as that is where the tree is native. "rectangular wooden container," usually with a lid, Old English box, also the name of a type of shrub, from Late Latin buxis, from Greek pyxis "boxwood," pyxion "writing table, box," made of boxwood, from pyxos "box tree," which is of uncertain origin. ![]()
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